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Indian Campaigns Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army Cpl. Frederick Hunt's gravestone at the Montana Veterans Home Cemetery in Columbia Falls on Thursday, May 9. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)

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Private Fred Hunt received a Medal of Honor through the U.S. Army on Jan. 8, 1877, in Cedar Creek, Montana. The Medal of Honor is considered one of the highest honors awarded in the military.